Easy Movie allows companies to leverage their employees to create authentic videos at scale. This add-on is designed to help developers integrate the EasyMovie platform with their apps on Heroku.

To create a video in a few minutes you need to :

1. Choose a template

2. Film by following the instructions and our real-time tips while you film

3. Add the text that will appear in the video

4. Your video is created automatically with your logo, colors, and editable text

Use this add-on to manage, list and retrieve the videos.

Provisioning the add-on

Easy Movie can be attached to a Heroku application via the CLI:

$ heroku addons:create easymovie
-----> Adding easymovie to sharp-mountain-4005... done, v18 (free)

After you provision Easy Movie, the EASYMOVIE_URL config var is available in your app’s configuration. It contains the URL to access the API. You can confirm this via the heroku config:get command:

$ heroku config:get EASYMOVIE_URL
http://user:pass@instance.ip/resourceid

Dashboard

The Easy Movie dashboard allows you to see the status of each video you send to the platform.

You can access the dashboard via the CLI:

$ heroku addons:open easymovie
Opening easymovie for sharp-mountain-4005

or by visiting the Heroku Dashboard and selecting the application in question. Select Easy Movie from the Add-ons menu.

Managing videos

Create a new video request

To create a new video request, you need to make POST request to the EASYMOVIE_URL config var. The payload associated with the POST request is :

{
    "title": "Discover our new CRM",
    "frames" : [
        {
            "url" : "https://linktothevideo.com",
            "order" : 1,
            "text": "We migrate our CRM to Salesforce",
        }
    ],
    "template": "1",
    "comment": "This video is for internal purpose",
    "external_id": "video1"
}

Retrieving the list of video requests

To retrieve the list of your video requests (and your final video URL), you need to make a GET request to the EASYMOVIE_URL config var. It will contains an array of all the video requests you made.

[
    {
        "frames": [
            {
                "createdAt": "2019-09-24T14:25:50.592Z",
                "updatedAt": "2019-09-24T14:25:50.592Z",
                "id": "5d8a276e6b2bd60017ddecf2",
                "url": "https://linktothevideo.com",
                "order": 1,
                "text": "We migrate our CRM to Salesforce",
                "video": "5d8a276e6b2bd60017ddecf1"
            }
        ],
        "createdAt": "2019-09-24T14:25:50.552Z",
        "updatedAt": "2019-09-24T14:25:50.552Z",
        "id": "5d8a276e6b2bd60017ddecf1",
        "title": "Discover our new CRM",
        "comment": "This video is for internal purpose",
        "external_id": "video1",
        "final": "",
        "template": "1",
        "status": "pending",
        "heroku": "5d6709a22bcd8a00177b4bad"
    }
]

Migrating between plans

Use the heroku addons:upgrade command to migrate to a new plan.

$ heroku addons:upgrade easymovie:newplan
-----> Upgrading easymovie:newplan to sharp-mountain-4005... done, v18 (free)
       Your plan has been updated to: easymovie:newplan

Removing the add-on

You can remove Easy Movie via the CLI:

$ heroku addons:destroy easymovie
-----> Removing easymovie from sharp-mountain-4005... done, v20 (free)

Support

All Easy Movie support and runtime issues should be submitted via one of the Heroku Support channels. Any non-support related issues or product feedback is welcome on our contact form.